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It's been some time since I set up a new database. I'm doing that now
for a ridiculously simple database and I can't do it. The database is
created but I can't create the layout I want.

The database has all of three fields: a date, an amount, and a total (of
the amounts). In layout mode everything looks good. I've put borders
around the fields and made sure they're filled with white (against the
gray of the "Enlightened" theme). When I switch to browse mode, the
fields vanish. There are funny rectangles at the left, about an inch
wide, that demark the body and footer of the layout, but no fields.
Creating a new record has no visual effect, although the record count
does increase by one.

If I view the database as a table, the date and amount fields appear,
but not the total. I have no control over the way the date and amount
fields look.

Any ideas?

Filemaker 16 on an iMac.

Charlie
-- 
Nobody in this country got rich on his own.  You built a factory--good.
But you moved your goods on roads we all paid for.  You hired workers we
all paid to educate. So keep a big hunk of the money from your factory.
But take a hunk and pay it forward.  Elizabeth Warren (paraphrased)

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